Sanhedrin at Usha

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Sanhedrin rabbinic council

The Sanhedrin at Usha was a key rabbinic council in the Galilee where the Tannaim reestablished Jewish legal authority and enacted important communal and halakhic reforms after the Bar Kokhba revolt.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Sanhedrin at Usha canonical	2
Sanhedrin of Usha	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Sanhedrin ⓘ rabbinic council ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Jewish communities in the Land of Israel ⓘ diaspora Jewish communities ⓘ
category	Galilean Judaism in the Roman period ⓘ Jewish legal history ⓘ Tannaitic institutions ⓘ
country	Roman Empire ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Jewish communal law ⓘ halakha ⓘ rabbinic jurisprudence ⓘ
followedBy	later Galilean centers of the Sanhedrin ⓘ
follows	Jewish–Roman wars ⓘ surface form: Bar Kokhba revolt Sanhedrin at Yavneh ⓘ
hasCause	destruction caused by Bar Kokhba revolt ⓘ need to relocate rabbinic center from Judea to Galilee ⓘ
hasEffect	adaptation of halakha to post-revolt realities ⓘ reaffirmation of Torah study as central communal value ⓘ regulation of charity and communal support ⓘ regulation of family law ⓘ regulation of inheritance practices ⓘ regulation of parental financial obligations ⓘ strengthening of rabbinic control over communal life ⓘ
hasGoal	codification and clarification of halakhic norms ⓘ reconstruction of Jewish communal structures ⓘ stabilization of post-revolt Jewish society ⓘ
hasRole	center of rabbinic leadership in Galilee ⓘ enactment of communal reforms ⓘ enactment of halakhic reforms ⓘ reestablishment of Jewish legal authority ⓘ
historicalRegion	Galilee ⓘ surface form: Lower Galilee
languageOfWorkOrName	Aramaic ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ
locatedIn	Galilee ⓘ Usha ⓘ
mentionedIn	Midrash ⓘ surface form: Midrashic literature Talmud ⓘ Tosefta ⓘ
participant	Shimon ben Gamliel II ⓘ surface form: Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel II Rabbi Yehuda haNasi (as a young scholar) ⓘ Tannaim ⓘ leading Galilean sages ⓘ
partOf	Tannaitic period ⓘ
precededBy	Sanhedrin at Yavneh ⓘ
religion	Judaism ⓘ
significantEvent	reorganization of rabbinic authority after Bar Kokhba revolt ⓘ series of enactments known as takkanot Usha ⓘ
timePeriod	2nd century CE ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tannaim → centralInstitution → Sanhedrin at Usha ⓘ

Shimon ben Gamliel II → partOf → Sanhedrin at Usha ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sanhedrin of Usha

Talmudic sage Rabbi Meir → associatedWith → Sanhedrin at Usha ⓘ

subject surface form: Rabbi Meir